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A recent report from Cisco Systems suggests that global cloud traffic will reach 5.3 zettabytes in 2017. That's more than four times the traffic seen in 2012. Analysts and vendors say this will have far-reaching implications for enterprise IT.
Amazon Web Services often gets criticized as a platform that doesn't necessarily scale for the enterprise. So at re:Invent, the second annual AWS conference, Amazon made a series of announcements aimed squarely at dispelling these concerns.
CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle isn't suggesting that Amazon get into gaming. Rather, AWS needs to approach IBM and the enterprise cloud the same way Microsoft successfully took on Sony. Otherwise, Amazon risks entering the annals of tech history
If your BYOD policy goes too far, you may be prosecuted for unfair labor practices. However, courts expect you to produce all relevant data in discovery proceedings. Meanwhile, your employees may fear retaliation if they don't sign draconian BYO
Ever the risk-averse industry, healthcare is finally beginning to trust cloud for the storage of protected health information. Experts credit better cloud security, dropping costs and the growing need for disparate organizations to share information.
For years, operations departments have used adverse selection principles to allocate resources, often deeming small projects unworthy of enterprise computing power. Today, though, the cloud makes computing so cheap that there's no reason to deny
Molto, formerly known as Incredimail, was spruced up for iOS 7 devices, and it's now available for Android tablets. Molto is a free, attractive app that's definitely worth a download, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.
HIPAA understandably makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data -- and then assuring them that it
In the latest example of the consumerization of IT by a leading consumer tech company, Amazon introduced its new "Mayday" tech support for Kindle tablets, which provides free and instant, 24/7 video tech support and remote IT assistance to
Google updated the Quickoffice suite of Microsoft-Office-compatible tools for iOS and Android, and the apps are now free. Unfortunately, you have to use Google's Drive cloud-storage, and you can't access Dropbox, Box or any other cloud serv
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